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  When Congress Checks Out

  Authors:	Norman J. Ornstein Thomas E. Mann

  November/December 2006
  Foreign Affairs

  Over the past six years, Congress' oversight of the executive branch on foreign and national security policy has virtually collapsed. Compounding the problem, the Bush administration has aggressively asserted executive prerogatives -- sometimes with dire consequences. The oversight problem must be fixed, ideally as part of a more fundamental effort to restore the balance between the two branches.

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